Can I get some broon sauce with that?

barcode · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 21.17

I had the pleasure of trying an English chippy, and I know you don't get the same types of food in England as you do in scotland, but It nice to try different sorts of food.

I know that Black puddling suppers, White puddling suppers, Fish suppers with haddock, Haggis supper and of course Chip steak supper ( for anyone interested * Rumped steak minced up and covered in batter ) where are no go, but I did not mind, it was when it come to asking for sauce will............

There don't do brown sauce in England, not even HP, there had every other type under the sun including Chile, bbq, red, etc

Why don't you get Brown in England? Or is this another regional thing, like square sausages, or English teacakes. I was a bit surprised at this one, its made in England.

Lorns · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 21.29

We do have brown sauce. Daddies, HP and some other cheapo stuff. We also have salad cream.

I am rather partial to worcester sauce on my fish and chips.

Gavin Scott · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 21.33

Lorns wrote:We do have brown sauce. Daddies, HP and some other cheapo stuff. We also have salad cream.

Chip shop "brown sauce" is an east coast Scotland thing, and its watered down HP/A1/Daddies type of thing - watered down to the point where it soaks through the chips and everything is coated.

We don't do vinegar in Edinburgh chip shops.

Try making a wee batch yourself. Its lush.

Lorns · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 21.46

diluted with water or vinegar?

Gavin Scott · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 21.53

Lorns wrote:diluted with water or vinegar?

Just water. Try a 50/50 mix with sauce and put it in a squeezy bottle and give it a good shake.

barcode · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 22.06

Gavin Scott wrote:
Lorns wrote:diluted with water or vinegar?
Just water. Try a 50/50 mix with sauce and put it in a squeezy bottle and give it a good shake.

Actually you can buy the stuff from the chippys in the east now. The old saying: You can always tell east coaster, when there in a chippy! over in Glasgow there make you PAY for sauces even red!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR_lgrtxWT8

Saying that it is hard trying to found some where good for breakfast, half the stuff is mircowave

I can;t understand why people put up with it.

marksi · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 23.07

My favourite is a scampi supper. Fab.

The fish in chip shops in London is never fresh and they only have "fish". You can't choose what type of fish. I prefer whiting or haddock. Will only take cod if there's nothing else. And smoked haddock suppers are very nice but you can't get the smoked stuff often.

barcode · Mon 13 Jul, 2009 23.20

This mean sound daft, but do you mean the yellow fish?

we never seem to get the smoked "yellow fish" haddock in the chippys, but you can out of the fish mongers, and very popular there are to.

nidave · Tue 14 Jul, 2009 11.24

There are 2 specific chippie things I know of.
A Parmazan (very specific to Teeside - Middlesbrough Mainly) Very nice with Chilli and Peperoni.
A parmesan, otherwise knows as a parmo. Is a flattened piece of meat, whether it be chicken breast, pork, or in some cases beef; coated in a white starchy-like sauce; coated with cheese (often parmesan or chedder cheese)

and a Northern Irish Pasty
They consist of sausage meat, potato, batter and herbs - Very nice, not had one in ages.

Also just thought - its very rare to get garlic sauce in a Manchester Chippie.

Gavin Scott · Tue 14 Jul, 2009 11.40

I tell you what else is nice - salad cream diluted in the same way as the brown sauce above. Takes the tartness out of it, and its less claggy on the palette.

Nice on a doner kebab - although I haven't had one of those in yonks.

You can only make a wee drop of it at a time, otherwise the oil and water separate.

Steve in Pudsey · Tue 14 Jul, 2009 18.37

So is the cliche true, and "supper" really means "and chips"?